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Join Telegram ChannelDreamWorks studios return in force with this major animated film where technology meets the wild beauty of nature.
After slamming the door in Disney's face, and achieving some of DreamWorks' successes (Dragons, The Croods), Chris Sanders makes his return to animation with The Wild Robotthe adaptation of the children's book by Peter Brown. In a futuristic world, Roz, an assistance robot, ends up on an island far from all civilization. To survive, she begins to imitate what surrounds her. A monster in the eyes of other animals, she nevertheless appears curious and determined, always looking for a task to accomplish. As fate would have it, she finds herself taking a baby bird under her wing and this is her reason for being. Freeing herself from her programming, she discovers within herself something she never suspected existed: a heart. But isn't a sentimental robot defective?
Through its gallery of characters as funny as they are endearing, like this teasing fox, or these mischievous opossums, the very poetic The Wild Robot moving without falling into pathos. We could almost speak of faultless until its final stretch and a confrontation between the world of robots who have come to recover Oz and that of these animals – who, despite their difference, will unite to defend it – totally disconnected from the spirit of finesse that reigned until then. But it doesn't spoil the essential. The way in which Roz invites us here to conceive the union of technology and nature, and thus enters the Pantheon of animated robots through the ongoing creative prowess of this film. She feels the call of the forest and the audience will receive it.
Of Chris Sanders. Duration 1h42. Released October 9, 2024